Attorneys for former Santa Fe County Deputy Tai Chan filed new evidence Tuesday that they say supports their claims of self-defense in the Jeremy Martin murder case.

In October, Chan and his colleague Martin were on the way back from transporting a prisoner to Arizona when they stopped at a Las Cruces hotel for the night.

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Las Cruces police responded to the hotel in the early morning after guests in the hotel reported hearing gunshots.

Martin was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds, and Chan was arrested. He was later indicted for Martin’s murder.

The autopsy also said bruises and scrapes were found on Martin’s hands and face, suggesting that he and Chan may have been in a fight before the shooting.

Chan’s attorney John Day has since filed court documents in the case describing Martin as the aggressor that night and that he attacked Chan.

Day says Chan is now claiming self-defense, and that he has since asked for Martin’s medical, psychological and performance records from the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office.

Day has since said that the records are material to Chan’s self-defense claim and may give insight into what he described in court as Martin’s, “violent and aggressive behavior toward his client Tai Chan.”

The sheriff’s office has resisted in releasing the documents claiming that they are privileged information.

The matter was taken up in front of a judge in Las Cruces who gave both sides time to gather more information about their stance before making a decision on whether to release the records or not.

Day filed supplemental evidence supporting his stance this week. In those court documents are photographs of a bloodied bed in Chan and Martin’s hotel room.

They are pictures that have never been seen before from the night Martin was killed.

The documents say the blood belongs to Chan and that it was tested by the state crime lab. The documents say that the blood is a result of Martin’s attack on Chan.

“The blood on the bed clearly shows that Chan acted in self-defense and that Martin was the aggressor in this instance,” Day said.

It’s not clear when a decision will be made about the records.

Chan is now out on bond and was allowed to return to Santa Fe in January.